The Metropolitan Opera Is Beautiful, And Full Of Old People

The Metropolitan Opera, founded in 1883, opened its Lincoln Center theater in 1966 and since then has become known as one of the most beautiful places to find old people in.

The theater seats 3,800 (old) patrons on six levels, a family of crystal chandeliers gifted to the Met by the Austrian government hang from the ceilings, two walls are covered in huge Chagall murals (that were signed over to JP Morgan as a collateral for a long term loan), and there are more elevators in the place than the AARP's headquarters.

Regular tickets are expensive, but two hours before each show, the theater releases rush tickets that run $20-$25. Whether you are an opera aficionado or not, if you get a chance to visit The Met, go, at the very least you will spend the night feeling young.

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For those of us who live in the hinterlands, Met on HD brings the Metropolitan Opera to a movie theater near you. Not the same as going to the Met live and in person, but you get great music, interviews with the performers, and backstage access to watch the sets being constructed between acts, and you can munch popcorn and drink a coke while you watch. All for around $20. It is a darn good deal. I try to catch it five or six times a year. Of course, I'm kind of old.

One of my greatest regrets about visiting New York nearly a decade ago was not being able to see Lincoln Center at all. I got to see a Broadway show (it was Fiddler on the Roof, but still decent) and of course we toured that tourist trap known as Times Square, but not seeing any of Lincoln Center was kind of depressing.

I go to the opera two or three times a year, and it's not as much an old-person thing as you might think. Sure, the olds are there, and it's their (old) money that keeps the whole thing afloat. But many of the operas are a psychedelically good time, and the Met Opera is surely one of the best in the world. It's well worth checking out whatever your age or economic status if you have even the tiniest inkling of curiosity about it.